Department of Computer Science | Georgetown University

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Web Name: Department of Computer Science | Georgetown University

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CS Undergraduate Awards for 2019-20Tropaia Computer Science Award:LoganArkema is the recipient of the Tropaia Computer Science Award. Academic Excellence Award: The recipients are:Sally MatsonYuansheng XieJulianne ZechTwo New Faculty Join in Fall 2020Two new Assistant Professors will join the Department of Computer Science in Fall 2020:Benjamin Ujcich will join Georgetown after completing Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include secure systems and network design.Alexander Golovnev obtained Ph.D. from NYU, and is currently a post-doc at Harvard University. His research interests include Computational Complexity, Algorithms, Pseudorandomness, Learning Theory, and Cryptography.The Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University, in the heart of Washington, DC, is home to higher education and advanced research on the cutting edge of computing and technology. BS, BA, MS, and Ph.D. programs connect students with the ideas, skills, and opportunities to shape the digital world we live in. The department is rapidly growing, with current core research areas of algorithms and theory; security, privacy, and cryptography; and data-centric computing. Faculty members in the department have been honored with a Gödel Prize, Test-of-Time awards, membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, NSF CAREER awards, and Best Paper awards, among other accolades. Students and faculty engage beyond the department through interdisciplinary courses and research, campus initiatives like guWeCode, public and private sector internships, local computing groups, and regional events.Matt Blaze and Co-Authors Receive Test-of-Time AwardMatt Blaze and co-authors Joan Feigenbaum and Jack Lacy received the Test-of-Time Award for their paper Decentralized Trust Management that appeared in the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (also known as the Oakland conference ).Cal Newport s Articles Appear in New Yorker, Communications of the ACM and Wired MagazineCal is an author of several books, including Digital Minimalism and Deep Work , that address issues at the intersection of technology and culture .Adrian Hertel, Minor in Computer Science, Develops Program To Let You Know When Food Delivery Slots Open UpAdrian Hertel, a Georgetown student who minors in computer science, created a program that will automatically notify users when time slots open on Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods.Best Paper Award for Shaobo Wang, Wenchao Zhou and co-authors, for their 2020 EDBT paper titled “Provenance for Probabilistic Logic Programs”.EDBT (International Conference on Extending Database Technology) is a leading international forum for database researchers, developers, and users.J. Smart and collaborators at Georgetown University develop COVID-2019 Symptom TrackerLeveraging Georgetown University’s AvesTerra knowledge orchestration framework, the university has a history of developing and implementing sociotechnical systems including development of platforms that inform public health. Differential privacy among 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2020 named by MIT Technology ReviewProf. Kobbi Nissim is a co-inventor of differential privacy.Georgetown Students Win the Hack for Good Challenge at TartanHacks 2020Georgetown team consisting Wendy Boeker, Karina Chan, Karissa Prayogo , and David Yao participated in TartanHacks 2020 at CMU and won the Microsoft Hack for Good Challenge.Prof. Ophir Frieder s Explainable AI-Driven Prescription Prediction Technology Licensed by Maxeler TechnologiesUsing the patent-pending technology developed at Georgetown s Information Retrieval Laboratory, Maxeler intends to work with the researchers at Georgetown to productize scalable, patient-specific, prescription selectors, reducing drug resistance, thereby improving patient care.

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